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Interstitial Cystitis (IC) & Chronic Pelvic Pain News

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Hot Topics from ICA’s Online Support Community

ICA’s Online Support Community is a place of peace, hope, and advice providing comfort for patients, family members, friends, and healthcare professionals looking for ways to better understand the impact of IC. It provides strength in numbers for those living with IC. Below is a list of some current hot topics. Join us in the growing ICA Online Support Community, where you can be connected to hundreds of other people experiencing similar symptoms, situations, experiences, and emotions.

• Total Abdominal Hysterectomy -freaking out, need help
• I Feel Like The Walking Dead, How Bout You?
• I’m having the interstim. Would love to know how others trials went…..

ICA Facebook Page “Question of the Week”

Sarah suffers from gastroparesis. Any other IC patients that share the same condition with Sarah that may be able to give her some advice or insight on living with both conditions?
Help us keep the conversation going!

ICA Healthcare Provider Registry Additions

For many people with interstitial cystitis (IC), an effective treatment plan requires a team approach, including urologists and other physicians, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, dietitians, and counselors. The ICA Healthcare Provider Registry includes clinicians who have agreed to be a referral source for IC patients. Below is a list of recent additions to the registry.

The ICA Healthcare Provider Registry does not include every healthcare provider who treats people with IC. Do you know of other healthcare providers who treat IC patients? Are you a healthcare provider that treats patients with IC and want to be included in the ICA’s Healthcare Provider Registry? Email your name, specialty, practice name, address, phone number, and website URL to ICAmail@ichelp.org giving your permission to be included in the ICA Healthcare Provider Registry.

• Physical Therapist – Portland, OR
• Physical Therapist – Vancouver, WA
• Physical Therapist – Centennial, CO
• Urogynecologist – Moultrie, GA
• Gynecologist – Jensen Beach, FL

IC & Chronic Pain Events

• NPR Here and Now Series Focuses on Chronic Pain Patients
• Weekend Educational Retreat for Women and Men with Chronic Pelvic Pain
• PELVIC HEALTH 101
• IC Support Group Updates
  • New IC Support Group – Monterey, CA
  • New IC Support Group – Charlotte, NC
  • New IC Support Group – Saint Louis, MO

Do you run an IC support group? If so, please share your information with us so we can post it on the ICA Support Group page. Please email your information to icamail@ichelp.org.

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Here’s a sneak peek at the cover for the Spring 2016 issue of the ICA Update that will be mailing in the next few weeks. If you haven’t already done so, make a donation commitment of $50 or more by April 3, to receive your personal copy. If it’s easier for you to make your donation over time, be an angel and consider making a monthly gift now of $10, $20, or $30 or more and be guaranteed to receive the next award winning ICA Update.

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